getAlpha: Alpha

View source: R/metricsBioTIME.R

getAlphaR Documentation

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Description

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Usage

getAlpha(x)

Arguments

x

(data.frame) First column has to be year and following columns contain species abundances.

Value

A data frame with results for S (species richness), N (numerical abundance), maximum N per year per assemblage, Shannon, Exponential Shannon, Simpson, Inverse Simpson, PIE (probability of intraspecific encounter) and McNaughton's Dominance.

Examples

## Not run: 
  # 1 site, 1 year in long format, ordered by ABUNDANCE or BIOMASS
  x <- data.frame(species = letters[1:6], x = 6:1)
  getAlpha(x$x)

## End(Not run)

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